Example sentences of "in the worst " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is any doubt about getting there in the worst circumstances , it is better to get down short in any open space ahead and risk rolling into the hedge . |
| 2 | In the worst possible case , that would slice A$250m off the result for this year , and nobody could have expected him to make up that sort of ground . |
| 3 | ON A DAY when many people are wondering how to make a few bob out of water , somebody else showed how to make millions , in the worst possible City fashion . |
| 4 | In the best 10 per cent of hospitals only one operating theatre session in 77 had to be cancelled , but in the worst 10 per cent the figure was one in six , he said . |
| 5 | In the best hospitals they dealt with five patients per operating session , in the worst just over three . |
| 6 | In pursuit of his , Mr Hurd endured several years in the worst jobs in Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinets . |
| 7 | viz. , right or wrong , and common fame saith he was as good as his word , in the worst sense . |
| 8 | In the worst year , 1961 , more than half a million dolphins were killed . |
| 9 | The city 's jobless rate is already 7.3% and rising — compared with 2.6% in the 1980 recession and 9.3% in the worst month of the 1980s , July 1986 . |
| 10 | An imitation book with curled up corners and antique dust ‘ is in the worst possible taste , ’ he confirms , ‘ but we sold a quarter of a million last year . ’ |
| 11 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 12 | TWENTY people were shot and hacked to death in a Johannesburg township in the worst incident of violence in South Africa since August 1990 , and 10 others were killed in settlements elsewhere in the city , writes Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg . |
| 13 | ‘ The men involved in the rescue were in the most danger and were in the worst condition , because of heat and fatigue , when it was all over . |
| 14 | Sensitive to further environmental damage after the nuclear disaster , authorities banned the use of chemical insecticides in the worst affected areas , leaving crops vulnerable to insect pests . |
| 15 | Where Buxton 's second-round score , put together in the worst of the weather , was an 81 , McKay had another 80 in which she was left kicking herself for having chipped through the green at the 295-yard 14th on her way to a six . |
| 16 | At Llyn Brianne in mid Wales , Lodgepole pine showed extensive yellowing ; on the acid sands of Surrey , beech were as deformed as those on the sandy soils of Holland and in the worst affected areas of the Black Forest . |
| 17 | Leapor places all of these concerns in the worst possible light . |
| 18 | The ideal aim is therefore to have all mentally handicapped people in ordinary houses which would be as far removed as possible from the concept of a ‘ home ’ in the worst sense of the word , and as near to the idea of a home in the best sense . |
| 19 | In the best case you may inherit excellent facilities needing only minor alterations ; in the worst there may be no buildings at all or it may be wisest to level the lot and start again . |
| 20 | Let us hope that librarians of the right stuff ( to use a Victorian expression ) will find arguments here to take to those who provide the funds to demand , not ask , that funds be provided to stop unnecessary dispersals , and that space be acquired for storage — no longer difficult in the worst property slump since the war . |
| 21 | [ it ] is in the worst possible taste , and , like overdressing in public places , indicates that they have no other place to show their finery . |
| 22 | First because the behaviour of many of the marchers is in the worst traditions of bigotry , drunkenness and loutishness . |
| 23 | It wallows in the worst excesses of sentimentality and adopts a moral tone that condemns and condones misbehaviour in the same breath . |
| 24 | She is a classic product of the company , able to see a platinum lining in the worst cyclone . |
| 25 | I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life . |
| 26 | It was going to happen to him all over again , and he was in the worst possible company . |
| 27 | Constitutions are infected with dynamism ; they will develop , willy-nilly , and if the necessity for development becomes obvious to courts , as to other law-creating agencies of the constitution , and the steps which they take in consequence come to enjoy widespread acquiescence , it is pointlessly academic in the worst sense to argue that such steps are , in some technical sense , wrong . |
| 28 | In fact , under the policies and leadership that demanded this , Labour could n't defeat the government in the worst recession since 1931 . |
| 29 | In the worst of three public falls , he ‘ crashed over like a tree ’ at the 1936 Democratic convention , but aides rushed to hide him and pick him up . |
| 30 | Officials in the worst hit areas reported an increase in cattle killing , but the number of court cases did not increase sharply in any district . |